How to move to Nvidia 470xx drivers with Kepler GPU?

remove video-nvidia and install video-nvidia-470xx, it should do the trick (what you should have done on Unstable branch initially).

sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx

but still you have a messed up mhwd database mixed up, it may catch up later with system updates.

mhwd-nvidia 470.82.00-1
mhwd-nvidia-470xx 470.86-2

Maybe reinstalling mhwd-database can fix it?

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